DATE: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:51:02 +1100
SUBJECT: Call for FLAMINGOS-2 System Verification proposals
FLAMINGOS-2, the near-infrared imager, long-slit and multi-object spectrograph, is undergoing commissioning on the Gemini South telescope. We now invite the Gemini community to propose System Verification (SV) science programs for the imaging and long-slit spectroscopy modes. The deadline for receipt of all proposals is Monday February 6 2012 at 23:59 UT.
Approximately 40 hours of telescope time is available for these imaging and long-slit spectroscopy programs. The observations will be executed during bright time in the first half of March. An announcement regarding SV for the multi-object spectroscopy mode will come later.
System verification will provide an end-to-end test of the new FLAMINGOS-2 instrument, from the proposal process to the delivery of the data, in advance of offering the new capability to the community for general use. Therefore, it is a "shared risk" observing mode, and incurs responsibility on the successful proposers to provide feedback to the observatory in a timely fashion. SV data also have a shortened proprietary period.
More information is available at
http://www.gemini.edu/sciops/instruments/flamingos2/system-verification
and the complete call for proposals is posted at
http://www.gemini.edu/sciops/instruments/flamingos2/system-verification/call-proposals
Stuart Ryder, AusGO
on behalf of the Gemini Observatory
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